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" It was on a bulletin board that I first learned about hacker culture, the 'Let's just break through this wall and see what's on the other side' mentality. "

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" If there's one thing about Chicago, we take care of our own. "

" The first thing is - and this is very important - I support the unmonitored use of the Internet for everyone. It doesn't matter what country you're in or what you do for a living - everyone should have the right to an unmonitored Internet. "

" Security is very difficult. You have to be very careful about security, and I think oftentimes people just forget; they don't invest in the right things. "

" There is the egoism of technologists. We do it because we can create. I can handle all of the parameters going into the machine, and I know what is going to come out of it. "

" I want to involve creativity more in technology and business. It is obvious that for us to be successful, a healthy relationship with creativity is needed. "

" I would say Silicon Valley and New York have inflated salaries. "

" When I called people and said, 'Hey! Do you want to work for the president?' they usually said yes. I had 2 people say no. One person said no because they were a Republican; one person said no because they're a Libertarian. "

" If you want to go and build a company that exists in Silicon Valley, then you should go and do it there. But if you want to build a company that is Australian, that represents your culture and your being, then you should do it in Sydney. "

" Don't eat the pizza; get lots of sleep - you have to take care of yourself. It's about being your tip top self at all times, and if you are unhealthy, or you're sick, or you don't feel good, even it's just because you're sluggish, you're not going to make it because you're not going to be able to react to things. "

" Very smart people are often tricked by hackers, by phishing. I don't exclude myself from that. It's about being smarter than a hacker. Not about being smart. "

" Let's say we were a peacekeeping force in some small country that most people had never heard of. And we were there to host a peaceful election, and we then found out a bunch of stuff was hacked. We probably would push to have another election to make sure that would be fair. "

" PayPal's been around forever. How do we use that platform to solve the future of commerce? "

" The opportunity to step away from everything and take a break is something that shouldn't be squandered. "

" I never would wish technology failing on any sort of opponent or enemy. "

" The thing about Snapchat is it is ephemeral, so you don't - it's not like a video that you post to YouTube and then everyone can see it. It's this video that you get to share this kind of very intimate experience again, this very kind of genuine experience with another person in a more one-on-one sort of way. And I really appreciate that. "

" I'm a white male in power. In many cases, I'm the enemy. "

" I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play 'astronaut' and eat bouillon as astronaut food. We also had tons of books. "

" We see these wonderful apps that really have changed our world in many good ways such as Uber or Airbnb, but at the same time, they're drastically changing the workforce. And they're changing them so much that the industries themselves are not able to keep up. "

" I find that I often forget that people come from all over. In interfaces, products, experiences, and building for people, we always forget that people are not us. "

" I don't drink coffee; I drink a lot of green tea and water. "

" Donald Trump won the election. I think that's true. I also think there was interference. If this was another country, I think we'd be demanding another election. "

" Taking time to do something slower than you normally would is a privilege that should not be ignored. "

" Advice is always awesome because it never makes any sense when you compare it all together. It always contradicts other advice. I love advice. "

" Google Photos is great. I enjoy using it to curate my photo collection online. The integration on iOS to Apple Photos is a bit too much voodoo for me. "

" Photo management software is terrible. Mylio is pretty good - but disrupts the 'natural' flow of things: i.e. Apple Photos. "

" What I do think is important is this idea of a 'privacy native' where you grow up in a world where the values of privacy are very different. So it's not that I'm against privacy but that the values around privacy are very different for me and for people who are younger than my parent's generation, for whom it's weird to live in a glass house. "

" The advice I used to give to engineers I hired was, 'Don't eat the pizza.' Sometimes when you walk into these high-pressure environments, it's, like, doughnuts everywhere and all these little cakes. "

" Crowdsourcing is the future. However, if you don't trust your users to build/create/upload awesome work, they won't trust you with their crowd capital. "

" I read a lot of books. I read because it inspires me and shows me paths that I could never imagine. Sometimes those paths are horrible and sad, and sometimes they are hopeful and amazing. Not always are they paths to the future, and sometimes the paths are actually about the past but make sense when applied to the future. Books are amazing. "